Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-26 Thread regis505
.gz a root0-090107.gz a root1-090116.gz I got the prompt back but the dvd device stays busy (on the unit, the light flashes non stop). Any ideas? Regis -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/how-to-create-a-DVD-backup-filesystem--tp21617046p21673928.html Sent from

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-26 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I was curious to tar directly to a blank dvd+rw. I tried: tar -cvf /dev/cd1 root0-090107.gz root1-090116.gz a root0-090107.gz a root1-090116.gz I got the prompt back but the dvd device stays busy (on the unit, the light flashes non stop). Any ideas? perform ANY read from the drive and

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I think the ISO-9660 + RockRidge is the most comfortable way for what you intend - allthough the tar method (or even the UFS method) won't be any problem here. But as I said, maximum compatibility is always welcome for backups. well not always. ___

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
cdr.iso:ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM 642848 -rw-r--r-- 1 kline wheel 657922048 Jan 24 15:34 cdr.iso what is the safest command to use to burn to 1. a CD, and 2. a DVD? Since `file' says that cdr.iso is a filesystem, I'm if it ISO9660

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-25 Thread Wojciech Puchar
I know this is *very* lazy stuff, but it works, and I never change a running system. :-) which is always a good thing. ___ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-25 Thread cpghost
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 10:05:12AM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: cdr.iso:ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM 642848 -rw-r--r-- 1 kline wheel 657922048 Jan 24 15:34 cdr.iso what is the safest command to use to burn to 1. a CD, and 2. a DVD? Since `file'

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 03:18:43AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:56:33 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Now that I have cdr.iso:ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM 642848 -rw-r--r-- 1 kline wheel 657922048 Jan 24 15:34 cdr.iso

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-25 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 03:35:44AM +0100, cpghost wrote: On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:56:33PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Now that I have cdr.iso:ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM 642848 -rw-r--r-- 1 kline wheel 657922048 Jan 24 15:34 cdr.iso what

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Y'never know when a meteor will destroy the Earth... . Using tar onto acd may not work, but utilizing atapicam, it could works with some DVD+R drives with DVD+RW media that was formatted with dvd+rw-format. just tar -b 64 works with DVD+R media too but media is not fixated

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread Wojciech Puchar
to only extract the music/ subtree. The tar file system is best for interoperability because (if I may say this) every UNIX-like OS can read tar, no matter if you the funny thing is when you create CD/DVD with FAT file system. Windoze can't read it :) because in this excuse of OS disks MUST be

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 05:09:51PM +0100, Wojciech Puchar wrote: Guys, I've got several directories off ~kline/ that I want to store permanently. Like all my development code in ~/devel, and all my music mp3's and ogg's in ~/Music, and all my online and mp3 books from

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:14:08 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: You can always try to tar it up directly tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ Does it actually work to write to a burner without intervention by the likes of cdrecord or burncd? If so, should it also be possible to burn an

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:02:58 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: After a dozen failures, your earlier post did work. I did a mkdir cdr; cp'd hundreds of megs into it, then ran mkisofs. And lastly ran dvdisaster against the iso file to get an ECC listing. Now

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:03:49AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 10:14:08 -0800, per...@pluto.rain.com wrote: You can always try to tar it up directly tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ Does it actually work to write to a burner without intervention by the likes of

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 17:56:33 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Now that I have cdr.iso:ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM 642848 -rw-r--r-- 1 kline wheel 657922048 Jan 24 15:34 cdr.iso what is the safest command to use to burn to 1. a

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread Gary Kline
On Sun, Jan 25, 2009 at 02:53:46AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:02:58 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: After a dozen failures, your earlier post did work. I did a mkdir cdr; cp'd hundreds of megs into it, then ran mkisofs. And lastly ran

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread cpghost
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 05:56:33PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Now that I have cdr.iso:ISO 9660 CD-ROM filesystem data 'CDROM 642848 -rw-r--r-- 1 kline wheel 657922048 Jan 24 15:34 cdr.iso what is the safest command to use to burn to 1. a CD, and 2. a

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sat, 24 Jan 2009 18:32:01 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Max, yes, even if all I have is DOS :-) Sure, no problem. Erm stop, no, little problem with DOS: It will cut off filenames at 8.3 convention because DOS only gets the ISO-9660 part, but not the standard RockRidge (or

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-24 Thread Polytropon
On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 03:35:44 +0100, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: In addition to the cdrecord examples shown earlier, you can also simply use burncd: # burncd -f /dev/acd0 -s max data cdr.iso fixate An addition: -s max will select the drive's fastest speed. This can lead to problems if

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:37:51 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: So if I use my space in /usr/tmp, would I use the cmd given by cpghost: % mkisoft -R -J -o cdr.iso /usr/tmp/cdr/ ? ^ ^ If this wouldn't % create the RockRidge extension,

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:45:16 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:26:22PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: You can always try to tar it up directly tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ Good luck. I do tar ~kline --bzip'd-- and scp it around. 3

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:59:49PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:40:01AM +0100, cpghost wrote: Perhaps there is something like that, but I do it manually like this: * mkdir cdr/ * copy approx 3.0 to 3.1 GB worth of files into cdr/ You mean, I'm guessing, my

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 11:37:51PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:48:11AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: Create an ISO-9660 file system with a standard RockRidge extension. This would allow you to master a file system for the CD or DVD which is usually represented by a .iso

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Guys, I've got several directories off ~kline/ that I want to store permanently. Like all my development code in ~/devel, and all my music mp3's and ogg's in ~/Music, and all my online and mp3 books from libribox.org in ~/readings. There are PDF files and

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread Wojciech Puchar
Perhaps there is something like that, but I do it manually like this: * mkdir cdr/ * copy approx 3.0 to 3.1 GB worth of files into cdr/ * mkisofs -R -J -o cdr.iso cdr/ Then use dvdisaster (/usr/ports/sysutils/dvdisaster) to thank you for pointing out such a nice tool!

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread Polytropon
On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 16:16:35 +0100, cpghost cpgh...@cordula.ws wrote: Yes, but keep in mind that /dev/dvd points to /dev/acd0 and not to /dev/cd0: This can be changed by link cd0 dvd in /etc/devfs. % ll /dev/dvd lrwxr-xr-x 1 root wheel 3 Jan 23 17:16 /dev/dvd@ - cd0

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread perryh
You can always try to tar it up directly tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ Does it actually work to write to a burner without intervention by the likes of cdrecord or burncd? If so, should it also be possible to burn an existing .iso by something like dd if=cd1.iso of=/dev/acd0 bs=64b

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-23 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 09:14:07AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 23:45:16 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:26:22PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: You can always try to tar it up directly tar -czf /dev/acd0 ~kline/ ~devel/ Good luck.

how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-22 Thread Gary Kline
Guys, I've got several directories off ~kline/ that I want to store permanently. Like all my development code in ~/devel, and all my music mp3's and ogg's in ~/Music, and all my online and mp3 books from libribox.org in ~/readings. There are PDF files and

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-22 Thread cpghost
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:10:46PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've got several directories off ~kline/ that I want to store permanently. Like all my development code in ~/devel, and all my music mp3's and ogg's in ~/Music, and all my online and mp3 books from

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-22 Thread Polytropon
On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:10:46 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, I've got several directories off ~kline/ that I want to store permanently. Like all my development code in ~/devel, and all my music mp3's and ogg's in ~/Music, and all my online and mp3

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-22 Thread Tim Judd
Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've got several directories off ~kline/ that I want to store permanently. Like all my development code in ~/devel, and all my music mp3's and ogg's in ~/Music, and all my online and mp3 books from libribox.org in ~/readings. There are

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:40:01AM +0100, cpghost wrote: On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 05:10:46PM -0800, Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've got several directories off ~kline/ that I want to store permanently. Like all my development code in ~/devel, and all my music mp3's and ogg's in

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 02:48:11AM +0100, Polytropon wrote: On Thu, 22 Jan 2009 17:10:46 -0800, Gary Kline kl...@thought.org wrote: Guys, I've got several directories off ~kline/ that I want to store permanently. Like all my development code in ~/devel, and all my music mp3's

Re: how to create a DVD backup filesystem?

2009-01-22 Thread Gary Kline
On Thu, Jan 22, 2009 at 10:26:22PM -0700, Tim Judd wrote: Gary Kline wrote: Guys, I've got several directories off ~kline/ that I want to store permanently. Like all my development code in ~/devel, and all my music mp3's and ogg's in ~/Music, and all my online and mp3